The volume provides IMEMO contributions to the Russian edition of the 2014 SIPRI Yearbook: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security. The contributors address issues involving the future of nuclear arms control, UN Security Council and regional arms control, OSCE and the Ukrainian crisis, Russia and NATO in the new geopolitical context, the Ukrainian factor in the US defence policy, the strategic relations between Russia and China. This year’s edition also highlights issues of resolving the crisis around Iran’s nuclear program, the dynamics of the Russian armed forces modernization, military political cooperation between Russia and the CIS states, India’s military technical cooperation with Russia and the US, Islamic State as a threat to regional and international security.

Alexander Lomanov and Vitaly Naumkin made reports at the international scientific conference “The historical and the modern aspects of the relations between Russia and China in the light of the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the People’s Republic of China”, which was held in Vladivostok. The conference was organized by Russian Historic Society.